From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@kernel.org>
Subject: CVE-2026-89459: s390/percpu: Fix MVIY_PERCPU() with older binutils
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2026 21:42:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2026091100-CVE-2026-89459-2349@gregkh> (raw)
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@kernel.org>
Description
===========
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
s390/percpu: Fix MVIY_PERCPU() with older binutils
Commit a737737cdb9c ("s390/percpu: Infrastructure for more efficient
this_cpu operations") introduced MVIY_PERCPU(), which stringifies
arguments that are already C string literals. This generates an
assembler macro invocation with whitespace-separated quoted arguments:
GEN_MVIY "459712" "%r3"
GNU as versions prior to binutils 2.39 drop the separating whitespace
between quoted macro arguments during input scrubbing. They
consequently parse the invocation as a single argument and emit
repeated warnings:
Warning: missing closing `"'
The .ifc in GEN_MVIY never matches and GNU as exits successfully
without emitting the mviy instruction. As a result, the interrupted
per-CPU sequence is not marked in lowcore and the exception return
path cannot repair the per-CPU address register after migration.
All MVIY_PERCPU() callers pass C string literals. Use them directly
and separate the assembler macro arguments with an explicit comma. The
resulting invocation is:
GEN_MVIY 459712, %r3
This form is unambiguous for GNU as and LLVM's integrated assembler.
This behavior was fixed in GNU as from binutils 2.39, but Linux
supports binutils 2.30.
The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2026-89459 to this issue.
Affected and fixed versions
===========================
Issue introduced in 7.2 with commit a737737cdb9c94e40a9926cdc2320f874c05d709 and fixed in 7.2.4 with commit 91770b08a120967077ae78600612f18bc5ee3caf
Issue introduced in 7.2 with commit a737737cdb9c94e40a9926cdc2320f874c05d709 and fixed in 7.3-rc1 with commit 101782f8945a125044347312d74d488c05741c4a
Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.
Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions. The official CVE entry at
https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2026-89459
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.
Affected files
==============
The file(s) affected by this issue are:
arch/s390/include/asm/percpu.h
Mitigation
==========
The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes. Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release. Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all. If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/91770b08a120967077ae78600612f18bc5ee3caf
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/101782f8945a125044347312d74d488c05741c4a
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